Books: Bestseller Revisited

The Jews who have survived pogroms and genocide will doubtless weather
this vulgar affront as well. Still, individual Jews who find themselves
stuck in Leon Uris' paper detention camp must surely regard QB Vll as a
rather gratuitous endurance test.

Based on a libel suit that the author actually faced in England over a
sentence in his third novel, Exodus, the book pits a Gentile Polish
doctor, Adam Kelno, against a famous American Jewish novelist, Abe
Cady. During World War II Dr. Kelno was forced to practice medicine in
the infamous Jadwiga concentration camp....